Love Wordle? Here Are 10 Related Video games to Attempt in 2026

In 2021, Josh Wardle launched the wildly well-liked phrase recreation Wordle. Then in 2022 the New York Times purchased the sport. The guidelines to Wordle are fairly simple. You have to determine a five-letter phrase in six or fewer guesses (we’ve got a two-step technique that can assist you remedy the puzzle each time). After every guess, the sport exhibits grey blocks for the incorrect letters, yellow blocks for the appropriate letters within the incorrect spot and inexperienced blocks for the appropriate letters within the right spot. 

CNET’s Gael Cooper has a great deal of suggestions and methods to deal with every NY Times Wordle puzzle. If you have completed your every day Wordle and are nonetheless craving a superb puzzle recreation, there are loads to select from.

Here are 10 different puzzle video games you’ll be able to play now.

Connections

Another New York Times-owned puzzle, Connections is a tough phrase recreation. “Players must select four groups of four words without making more than four mistakes,” the New York Times wrote on X. There are additionally 4 color-coded issue ranges for every recreation; yellow is the simplest, then inexperienced, then blue and eventually purple. The recreation can be just like the BBC quiz present Only Connect, and the present’s host took to X to level out the connection. See what I did there?

You can play Connections on any internet browser however you want a New York Times subscription (which starts at $1 a week) to play.

Strands

Strands is one other New York Times-owned puzzle however this recreation resembles a phrase search extra so than Wordle and Connections. This recreation presents a theme day by day that can assist you discover phrases in a grid. In Strands phrases can seem ahead, backward, top-to-bottom or any variety of methods in a conventional phrase search, and phrases also can type within the form of an “L” or have a zigzag in them. When you discover a phrase, faucet the primary letter and drag your finger to the opposite letters. Every letter within the puzzle is used, so for those who nonetheless have letters that are not linked to phrases, you are not completed but.

You can play Strands on any internet browser however you want a New York Times subscription (again, $1 a week) to play.

Quartiles

Quartiles is a brand new phrase recreation Apple News Plus subscribers can entry on their iPhone or iPad that is operating iOS 17.5 or later. In this phrase recreation, you are given 20 tiles with letters on them and also you’re making an attempt to place them collectively to type completely different phrases. The longest phrases are 4 tiles lengthy, and these are referred to as Quartiles. The recreation might be powerful however discovering simply one of many Quartiles is as satisfying as remembering one thing that was simply on the tip of your tongue.

You can play Quartiles on an iPhone or iPad however you want an Apple News subscription (which starts at $13 a month) to play.

Multiple Wordle spinoffs: Dordle, Quordle, Octordle and Sedecordle

Are you up for a problem? If you like Wordle and wish puzzle video games that take extra mind energy, you will need to take a look at both Dordle, Quordle, Octordle or Sedecordle. Each of those phrase video games resembles Wordle, however they add extra rows, columns and phrases to unravel. Each recreation requires you to concurrently remedy a distinct variety of phrases directly: Dordle has you fixing two phrases, Quordle 4 directly, Octordle eight directly and Sedecordle a whopping 16. Good luck.

You can play Dordle, Quordle, Octordle or Sedecordle on any internet browser.

Lewdle

“Lewdle is a game about rude words,” this recreation’s content material advisory reads. “If you’re likely to be offended by the use of profanity, vulgarity or obscenity, it likely isn’t for you.” Translation: It’s Wordle however with dangerous phrases. The phrases vary from gentle — like poopy — to phrases that may make a sailor blush. Thankfully, regardless of this recreation’s content material warning, slurs are not included. Like Wordle, grey, yellow and inexperienced blocks are utilized in the identical manner and there is just one puzzle per day. So go forth and let the dangerous phrases circulation!

You can play Lewdle on any internet browser. You also can obtain this recreation from Apple’s App Store or the Google Play retailer.

Antiwordle

Tired of seeing these grey, yellow and inexperienced blocks plastered throughout your social media feed? Give Antiwordle a attempt. While Wordle desires you to guess a phrase in as few tries as doable, Antiwordle desires you to keep away from the phrase by guessing as many occasions as doable. When you guess, letters will flip grey, yellow or crimson. Gray means the letter is not within the phrase and cannot be used once more, yellow means the letter is within the phrase and should be included in every subsequent guess and crimson means the letter is within the precise place inside the phrase and is locked in place. If you should use each letter on the keyboard with out getting the phrase right, you win. Honestly, I’ve discovered this model of Wordle to be a lot tougher than the unique.

You can play Antiwordle on any internet browser.

Absurdle

Absurdle payments itself because the “adversarial version” of Wordle. While Wordle nudges you in the appropriate path with every guess, Absurdle is making an attempt to keep away from providing you with the right reply. According to the sport’s web site, “With each guess, Absurdle reveals as little information as possible, changing the secret word if need be.” Absurdle doesn’t pick a word in the beginning of the sport for the participant to guess. Instead, it makes use of the participant’s guesses to slender its checklist of phrases down in an effort to make the sport go so long as doable. The ultimate phrase won’t even embody a yellow letter from one in all your earlier guesses both. You can guess as many occasions as you need, which is useful, and the most effective rating you may get is 4. Have enjoyable!

You can play Absurdle on any internet browser.

For extra phrase recreation enjoyable, take a look at CNET’s Wordle suggestions, the greatest Wordle jokes and every little thing you have to know concerning the phrase recreation. You also can take a look at what to know concerning the different New York Times-owned video games, Connections and Strands.